The American Future: A History

Voorkant
Harper Collins, 19 mei 2009 - 432 pagina's

“With eloquence, wit, passion, and irony, The American Future traces the history of an idea: that of our national destiny….A book of beautiful writing, peppered with wisecracks, slashed with rapier thrusts.” —Philadelphia Inquirer

 

A De Tocqueville for the 21st century, Simon Schama, NBCC Award winning author of  Rough Crossings offers an essential, historical, long view analysis of the American character in The American Future. Shama examines four themes—war, race and faith, immigration, and custodianship of the land—through the prism of the historic 2008 presidential election in a magnificent work that the Wall Street Journal calls a “celebration of American resiliency.” Niall Ferguson says, “I hope Obama will have this book on his bedside table.”
 

Inhoudsopgave

Iowa Waltz
1
AMERICAN WAR 1 Veterans Day 11 November 2007
25
soldiering and the Founding Fathers
33
The Drop Zone Cafe San Antonio Texas 3 March 2008
55
The trials of the Roman
59
Taking sides
70
Father and son
78
The quartermaster general 186164
85
Ruleville Mississippi 31 August 1962
213
WHAT IS AN AMERICAN? 24 Twilight Downing Street June 2008
219
France August 1794
223
The German threat
238
The Chicken Club south Texas July 2008
244
The immigrant problem in Texas
246
The German threatagain
263
The importance of Fred Bee
268

John Rodgers Meigs the Shenandoah Valley summer and fall 1864
100
Montgomery Meigs and Louisa Rodgers Meigs October 1864December 1865
103
Washington D C February 2008
108
Hamilton resurrexit
111
RohrbachlèsBitche the Maginot Line near Metz 10 December 1944
123
AMERICAN FERVOR
129
Atlantic City August 1964
130
Saved
138
Raven Virginia 2008
148
Providence
152
Whereas Almighty God hath created the mind free
161
National Sin
176
Jarena Lee
186
The sovereignty of the voice
195
Easter Sunday 2008 Ebenezer Baptist Church Atlanta
206
Great white hopes?
210
Grace under pressure
283
Jeffersons Koran
295
AMERICAN PLENTY 33 Running on empty?
303
Strawberry fields 1775
312
White Path 180123
316
The church of irrigation
336
Ghost house
344
Roll up that lawn
351
Windmills
357
The Impotent Angel?
363
Bibliography
371
Acknowledgments
379
Picture Acknowledgments
383
Index
385
Copyright

Overige edities - Alles bekijken

Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen

Over de auteur (2009)

Simon Schama is University Professor of Art History and History at Columbia University in New York. His award-winning books include Scribble, Scribble, Scribble; The American Future: A History; National Book Critics Circle Award winner Rough Crossings; The Power of Art; The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age; Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution; Dead Certainties (Unwarranted Speculations); Landscape and Memory; Rembrandt's Eyes; and the History of Britain trilogy. He has written and presented forty television documentary films for the BBC, PBS, and The History Channel, including the Emmy-winning Power of Art, on subjects that range from John Donne to Tolstoy.

Bibliografische gegevens